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for-hergian

  • verb [ weak ]
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of action by persons,
to lay waste a country, carry captive people
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  • Æfter þǽm þe hé Egyptum forhergede, hé gefór siþþan on Judana lond and hiera fela forhergeade; siþþan on Ircaniam hé heora fela gesette

    post transactum in Aegypto bellum plurimos Judaeorum in transmigrationem egit, atque in Hyrcania habitare praecepit,

    • Ors. 3, 5
    • ;
    • S. 104, 23-26
    • .
of the action of natural forces
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  • Se wíngeard wæs forslagen and forhergod mid onhreósendum hægle

    vinea grandine irruente vastata est,

    • Gr. D. 57, 5.
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[
O. H. Ger. fer-herión depraedare.
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